Zhu Xi, Sorai, Dasan's Interpretations of The Analects(1)

This essay attempts to discover patterns of communicative and hermeneutic practices in the Analects, as well as in the commentary tradition, known as jingxue (classicism). The Analects contains at least two distinctive paradigms showing different ways of interpreting speech: One is Confucius's pragmatic approach, which emphasizes the intention and purpose of the speaker, and the other is Gongxi Hua's approach, which focuses on the literal meaning of the speech. Examples of each paradigm can be found in the long history of the exegeses of the Analects. Commentaries by two groups of scholars are discussed: those whose approach is similar to that of Confucius (Sima Qian, Zheng Xuan, Mouzi, Huang Kan, Cheng Yi, and Zhu Xi) and those whose approach is similar to that of Gongxi Hua (Xianqiu Meng, Han Fei, Wing-tsit Chan, Ya Hanzhang, and Wang Yousan).

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Zhu Xi, Commentary and the Analects

Transmitters and Creators ◽

10.1163/9781684173907_011 ◽

2003 ◽

pp. 171-195

Keyword(s):

Zhu Xi ◽

The Analects

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Who Wrote the Analects?

Who Wrote That? ◽

10.7591/cornell/9781501749704.003.0003 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 39-57

Keyword(s):

Song Dynasty ◽

Zhu Xi ◽

The Song Dynasty ◽

Four Books ◽

Liu Zongyuan ◽

The Analects ◽

Confucian Teachings

This chapter focuses on the Analects, which is a collection of 512 passages arranged in twenty chapters that describe what Confucius said. The chapter talks about the rationalist neo-Confucian philosopher Zhu Xi who selected the Analects as one of the Four Books to read in order to understand Confucian teachings during the Song dynasty. It also mentions the Five Classics of Confucianism that were traditionally ascribed to Confucius in the sense that he wrote some and edited others. The chapter discusses Ban Gu, a Chinese politician and poet who provided the seminal narrative for how it was thought the Analects was compiled. It also pays attention to the poet and politician Liu Zongyuan, who expressed the opinion that disciples of Zengzi compiled the Analects.

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Zhu Xi (1130–1200)

Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy ◽

10.4324/9780415249126-g066-1 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Kirill Ole Thompson

Keyword(s):

Eleventh Century ◽

Zhu Xi ◽

Great Learning ◽

Doctrine Of The Mean ◽

Four Books ◽

Zhang Zai ◽

The Mean ◽

The Analects

The Chinese neo-Confucian philosopher Zhu Xi was a consummate scholar and classicist as well as a superb critical and synthetic thinker. He fused the ideas of the seminal eleventh-century thinkers Shao Yong, Zhou Tunyi, Zhang Zai, Cheng Hao and Cheng Yi into a grand philosophical synthesis. In addition, by effectively editing and annotating the essential classical Confucian texts – the Analects of Confucius – the Mengzi of Mencius, the Daxue (Great Learning) and the Zhongyong (Doctrine of the Mean) – as the Four Books, Zhu worked out a lasting renewal of the Confucian project.

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